Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-12-24

Postal Facilities in Texas.
COMPLICATED TROUBLES WITH THE MAIL AT PURvIs'
STATION.
Opie P. Reid in Texas Siftinxs.
"MOrnin' stranger" saluted q grizzly bearded
Arkansaw man dressed in a red shirt, pantaloons
held in place by a. trunk strap, and leaning on
double-barrelled shot gun. The party addressed
was land-hunter, his particular mission locating
black-walnut timber, and his office, headquarters
and business agency were In the saddle.
Good morning TO YOU" answered the timber
SPECTATOR. "Game plenty?"
wei, not SO very; somat scattered What's
the news?'
.The car has returned to ST. Petersburg without
Il don't know the fellow you speak OF, but was
In petersburg during the war, when the crater was
That's not the place I was talking about.
What's the news about here?"
81 heerd rumOr about Bill Givens and Sandy
Patch1n agoin to war about Givens' sister. Lie,
up In Dorsey kaOunty, and hit cared likely when
yo fust spoke about hit ffen sum OF ther friends
mout have jned in an clinched. What else, stran-
We'll. they have hanged Parsons and Spies and
the rest OF them"
"Oh, no; they were legally executed"
Ibid enny OF 'em git them hams back?"
ayes, an side meat The also stole two gallons
| OF HI stebbinses fo-year-ole WHISKY"
81 am talking about the Chicago anarchists"
anarchists, man-Anarchists! Don't you people
ever read the newspapers?"
"Onct In while we does. But you see stranger,
| sartn an crude-like. YO' have no idee what
monkeys parrot time we has On hit gettin' our
mail Hit don't cum In darn sight O1ener than
| hit ought TO-"
"Wnat IS the difiiculty?-
IAN when she does cum, ole Pulvis, the post
offen their letters an has ter russell an sell
coon skin or hunk OF venison for small change
ter pay the postage"
rhnf bz nplV Jop,t
mo, stranger hits this way" explained the
Arkansaw NimrOd, splitting red shaft OF tobacco
juice into the good eye OF a NANCY hound, which
Immediately rolled In agony at his feet .'Ole
man Trabb's son got the Government contract an
sub-let her to WyncOop's father-in-law, an Wyn-
cOops father-in-law sub-let her TO Powells uncle
an Powells uncle sub-let her TO BraxtOn's mother
an she could Mt ride, an so she sub-let her to job
PreSser, an Job Pressler lost her in a game OF
seven-up TO Lislie Potters cousin, Lishe's cousin
sub-let her TO Rat Hackett, an Rat"
mails?''
swell, to come to ther pint. skinny wilkins is
purtendn TO carry her, but he's ole an his boss is
lame an sweenled, an has lher CYLINDERS an'ther
folks In P1kevtlle whar he gifts tner mail won't let
him drive inter town, nor ther folks at Pulvises
won't let him come nigh them with his glandered
crow-bait, an so skinny has ter walk about two
miles at Pikeville an about two miles at Pulvises
skinny won't do hit, an that's the gst Of 1t, SO Yer
see we air done up mos Of ther time"
Men and Women at the Dentist,s.
From the Chicago Tribune.
young man with a swollen face hesitatingly
entered a dentists office in a downtown block
yesterday. A few moments later loud groan
| issued from the onice through the open transom.
The dentist held up the young mans late aching
| tooth before him.
al feel deeply for my PATIENTS said he.
$50 Judge from the way you Jabbed those for.
| ceps down."
81 have deep sympathy for them in the pain
operator, not needing the interruption sit ia a
real trial to the dentist. There are some of
course, who become callous In pulling teeth, but
gin with an exhaustive efort Of physical strength
and trial upon the nerves besides hummer OF
operators In this city have given up entirely ex-
when the operation is necessary. The reason for
this Is that It Is TOO much OF q strain i have
dentists 70 be 50 By the
seriously affected. Another reason IS thai very
| few teeth are so badly decayed that they cannot
| save rather than destroy.
"Women," he continued, stake better care Of
their teeth than men do, and therefore have the
he grtns and bears IL just as long as he can. He
puts on visiting the dentist until he can stand the
torment no longer 1t tries the nerve OF the aver
they visit the dentist the moment a tooth begins
| aching or shows signs OF needing attention. we
administer gas to more women than men, how.
seriousness is repugnant 70 men. They want to be
present when the operation Is performed, though
they dread the pain. Most OF the pain attending
upon the gums substance that would tempO-
rar1ly destroy all feeling In the gums would make
extraction almost painless II was thought CO
fortune bigger than the vanderbilts' awaits the
chemist who discovers the drug that will do It,"